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When they vilify our religion by classing the Redeemer of the world in the lowest grade of the human species; when they debase the noble race from which we spring—that race which called civilization into existence, and from which have proceeded all the great, the brave, and the good that have ever lived—and place it in the same scale as the most stupid, ferocious and cowardly of the divisions into which the Creator has divided mankind, then they place themselves beyond the pale of all law, for they violate every law, divine and human.
Ought not, we ask, our City authorities to make them understand this; to tell them that they prosecute their treasonable and beastly plans at their own pe<*>ZZZ?
Such is the man, such the
means, by which he seeks to bully Freemen out of the rights of Free Speech and Free Thought.
There are those who cower before his threats and his ruffian appeals to mob violence—here is one who never will!
All the powers of Land-jobbing and Slave-jobbing cannot drive us one inch from the ground we have assumed of determined and open hostility to this atrocious war, its contrivers and abettors.
Let those who threaten us with assassination understand, once for all, that we pity while we despise their baseness.
Provocation.
The following, from the
Express: For woman we think the fittest place is home, “sweet home” —by her own fireside and among her own children; but the Tribune would put her in trowsers, or on stilts as a
public woman, or tumble her pell-mell into some
Fourier establishment.
Reply.
The following, from the
Express of
the same date:
At the Park this even ing the graceful Augusta, (whose benefit, last night, notwithstanding the weather, was fashionably and numerously attended,) takes her leave of us for the present.
We can add nothing to what we have already said in praise of this charming artist's performances, farther than to express the hope that it may not be long ere we are again permitted to see her upon our boards.
As in beauty, grace, delicacy, and refinement, she stands alone in her profession, so in private life she enjoys, and most justly, too, the highest reputation in all her relations.
Provocation.
To what a low degree of debasement must the Coons have indeed fallen, when even so notorious a reprobate as Nick
Biddle is disgusted with
them.—Plebeian.
Reply.
All the “notorious reprobates ” in the country were “disgusted” with the
Whigs long ago. They have found their proper resting-place in the embraces of Loco-Focoism.
